Table of contents : Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Note on Conventions Selected Timeline of Indies and Indonesian Histories Introduction: The Afterwardsness of History Chapter 1. Desire, Phantoms, and Commodities: Maria Dermoût’s Colonial Critique Chapter 2. At Home and Not at Home in Empire: Transnational Phantasies of Colonial Modernity Chapter 3. A Neurotic Family Romance of Modernity and the National Form Chapter 4. The End of the Nationalist Romance Chapter 5. Trauma and Its Doubles in Postcolonial Masculinity Chapter 6. Masculinist Trauma and Feminist Melancholia Afterword: Trauma, Translation, and a Critical Path Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography Index About the Author